CineMar – 6th Edition

6TH EDITION - PORTUGUESE CINEMA IN RELATION TO THE SEA

  • It Went With the Sea (2025) – Matilde César

    14m

    A film about distance, loss and the fragility of life symbolized through a garden
    that fell and a sea that swallowed it up.

  • The Boat (2024) – Rodolpho Pinotti.

    17m

    A remote island, a teenage girl, and her mother. A boat arrives at the dock, bringing promises and desires. Against her mother's wishes, the girl leaves to see the world, returning years later with a lifetime of passions and memories in tow. The film explores rites of passage and the transformati...

  • Caught in the Net (2025) – Nuno Alves de Lima

    27m

    The deep sea constitutes the entirety of the ocean area situated below
    the 200 metres of depth, where sunlight does not reach, and it is the most inaccessible place on Earth for humans. Despite poorly knowing it, we
    are leaving a path of destruction on it with our trawling nets, motivated by an i...

  • Four in a Row (2025) – Clara Figueiredo

    5m 29s

    Carolina, Carlota, Clara and Constança are four sisters whose parents have insisted, every year, on taking the same picture. In Porto Santo beach, from 2003 to 2024, Clara Figueiredo narrates her childhood memories, which she associates to each of the pictures, reflecting upon the sisters. “Betwe...

  • Water Tongue (2025) – Stella Horta

    19m

    Whale songs, seawater vocalizations, transatlantic letters, radio
    signals. “Water Tongue” reflects on more-than-human forms of communication. Mariana, in the Azores, and Stella, in Lisbon, exchange ideas
    and film together in the Azores archipelago.